New Jersey Theatre Alliance presents staged readings from plays written by five Playwrights in the Matheny Medical and Educational Center's arts Access Program, which empowers individuals with disabilities to create art without boundaries. The readings will be presented from 3-4:30 p.m. on Saturday,ÃÂ ...

Five political Playwrights from Europe have turned terrorism into absurd comedy as they probe questions asking answers from their audiences. The five theater-makers, Daniel Boffey, Constanze Letsch, Philip Oltermann, Helena Smith and Kit Gillet, deal with sensitive political issues fighting the prejudicesÃÂ ...

The womenPlaywrights' Initiative will return to the Ivoryton Playhouse on Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3, building on its successful debut season last year. Organizer Laura Copland and a team of play readers she assembled chose four one-act plays from more than 300 that were submitted.

The Joust Theatre Company is thrilled to introduce The Writer's Round Table, a new developmental writers' group comprised of four carefully selected Playwrights whose work challenges and/or reimagines systemic norms. These four Playwrights will join us in a 9-month developmental process to exchangeÃÂ ...

The 41st Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the premiere festival for new works on the west coast, runs July 20th - 29th returning to the recently renovated Potrero Stage, 1695 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107. Over 700 scripts were submitted for this year's festival. The final Six talented emergingÃÂ ...

The idea behind Photo/Plays was born in 2001, when the Actors Theatre of Louisville gave a group of Playwrights a copy of Lee Friedlander's photograph "Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969," and challenged them to write a play. The result was "Snapshot," a collection of fascinating, funny andÃÂ ...

One of the oldest, if iffiest, edicts for writers is "Write what you know," and Playwrights know the world of theater like the back of their ink-smeared hands. Vogel's "Indecent," though -- which opens Friday at the Guthrie Theater -- paired tons of research (it's about the tortured history of a century-old YiddishÃÂ ...

Playwrights Gary McNair and James Fritz are among the first writers selected to create new plays as part of a $5 million (ÃÂ£3.6 million) commissioning drive by US audiobook giant Audible. Fifteen writers from across the globe have been commissioned to write original one or two-person audio plays, fundedÃÂ ...

Playwrights Horizons, among the most adventurous theaters Off Broadway, will present six shows in its 2018-19 season -- the first of which will be delivered by two casts, one performing in American Sign Language alongside the other. The opening play, "I Was Most Alive With You," by Craig Lucas, followsÃÂ ...

Seven theatre artists have gathered for the nineteenth annual Sundance Institute Playwrights & Composers Retreat at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, currently underway from February 5 to February 23, 2018. Designed to support theatrical writing in its earliest stages, the residency is dedicated toÃÂ ...

At a time when both Playwrights and theater companies increasingly rely upon funding for the arts and ticket prices to live theater soar, Audible seeks to provide a creative home for artists and ideas, supporting established and new Playwrights by commissioning works that can be heard by millions ofÃÂ ...

The cast and company of Playwrights Horizons' world-premiere play This Flat Earth met with the press today to kick off rehearsals for the production, which is set to begin performances on March 16. Tony winner Rebecca Taichman (Indecent) directs the production, opening April 9. The cast of LindseyÃÂ ...

Taking place in Birr, Co Offaly (Monday 11 - Sunday 17 June), Scripts Ireland's Playwriting Festival creates unique opportunities for Playwrights to have their work developed and produced. The scripts most suited for development will be chosen by the selection panel headed by playwright Eugene O'Brien.

HILLSVILLE -- Four Carroll County high school (CCHS) students reached the semi-final round of competition for the Young Playwrights Festival, hosted by the Barter Theatre in Abingdon. If you subscribe to the newspaper, you receive FREE access to all the exclusive content of the web site! SimplyÃÂ ...

"It doesn't feel like we've dealt with this past in a normal way," she says. When Cărbunariu set up her company DramAcum (Drama Now) in Bucharest, her aim was to promote a new type of Romanian theatre. "The style used by Playwrights before 1989 was very elusive, metaphorical - at that time they wereÃÂ ...

Cleveland, OH, February 10, 2018 -- Playwrights Local announces the 2018 Play Lab and Spring Workshops, the company's third annual series of new plays and free classes. Featured are staged readings of works developed in the Play Lab incubator program, which teams Playwrights, dramaturgs, andÃÂ ...

Playwrights have branched out into writing for television ever since Harold Pinter's A Night Out, broadcast in 1960, was watched by a then record-breaking 6.4 million households. But while theatre heavyweights like Dennis Potter and David Hare wrote for the BBC, for a long time the theatre world generallyÃÂ ...

The Provincetown Theater and Artistic Director David Drake are proud to host the 8th annual "24 Hour theater festival," created and produced by the Provincetown Playwrights' Lab on President's Day weekend 2018, Saturday, February 17th at 7:30pm and a new "Encore Performance" on Sunday,ÃÂ ...

The Eugenia Price/Joyce Blackburn Foundation in association with Golden Isles arts & Humanities recently presented the 19th Annual Young Playwrights Awards at a Showcase on Jan. 25. The first place prize and $500 was awarded to Tess Redden for her play "20 Minutes or It's Free." The second placeÃÂ ...

It's been almost two years since JAG Productions came onto the scene in the Upper Valley. This weekend, Jarvis Antonio Green, company founder and namesake, will launch JAGfest 2.0, the second iteration of a new-play festival that develops work by emerging black Playwrights. Green has been part ofÃÂ ...

"I'm really encouraged to see more and more young Playwrights coming out of UChicago. The TAPS program is so young, but I imagine we'll start seeing its impact in places like New York and Los Angeles in a few years, but it already feels like we have a quorum in Chicago." McLeod is ready to add herÃÂ ...

Four esteemed Playwrights, with very different career paths and writing styles, will discuss today's theatre landscape, the trials and triumphs of crafting work for the stage, the commissioning process, working with directors and producers and the value of the single voice of the single writer. They will alsoÃÂ ...

Over the past eleven years, The Playwrights Realm, led by Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereira, has continually produced work by brave new voices and expanded its commitment to providing holistic support to Playwrights striving to make a life in the arts.

Founded in 1994, RATTLESTICK Playwrights THEATER is an Obie-Award winning theater that has created, developed and produced over 100 World Premieres. Our mission is to present diverse, challenging and provocative plays that might not otherwise be produced and to foster the future voices ofÃÂ ...

Playwrights Horizons has now announced complete casting for the upcoming world premiere of Lindsey Ferrentino's new play This Flat Earth, directed by Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman, which begins previews at at the company's Mainstage Theater on March 16, 2018, before an official opening onÃÂ ...

The International Centre for womenPlaywrights campaigns for gender equity for female dramatists across the world. This year sees their seventh Annual Awards to theatres which have produced works by female writers at least 50% of their season from July 1 2017 - June 30, 2018. Set against aÃÂ ...

10 DallasPlaywrights Gather for First Impressions Festival For Local Playwrights Imprint Theatreworks has announced the finalists chosen for our Inaugural First Impressions Festival for Local Playwrights. Ten original works will be featured, all by Playwrights based in Dallas and Fort Worth. "IMPRINT isÃÂ ...

The women's Voices theater festival, which produces works written entirely by women, opened in Washington last month. Jeffrey Brown sits down with three of the featured Playwrights to discuss why they believe festivals like this are meaningful, the #MeToo movement, and the unique perspective femaleÃÂ ...

After 10 months of renovations and upgrading, the house lights came up Monday morning inside the Helen Hayes Theatre, at 589 seats Broadway's smallest and newest landmark venue. Related ÃÂ· 'Howards End': Trailer, Premiere Set For Starz Limited Series. The stage was filled with board members andÃÂ ...

It's a question she threw out to her fellow Playwrights Anyanwu and Chaudry as they sat down together to share the unique literary lenses that were shaped by both the blessings and burdens of being bicultural. Playwrights Ngozi Anyanwu (The Homecoming Queen), Hammaad Chaudry (An OrdinaryÃÂ ...

Third- and fourth-graders from Chautauqua Lake, Panama, Westfield, Ripley and Jamestown's Fletcher Elementary schools visited Chautauqua institution over the course of two days as part of Chautauqua's yearly Young Playwrights Project. The Young Playwrights Project was established a few years agoÃÂ ...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (WIVB) -- One actor is portraying Big Foot, another, a dragon, and a third, a tooth -- that's right, an actual tooth. They're all playing parts written by third and fourth graders in Chautauqua County. It's part of the Young Playwrights Festival taking place at the Chautauqua institution.

Winners of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme have been announced, with entries from the Orange Tree Theatre in London and the Traverse Theatre in Scotland among them. The scheme celebrates emerging British playwriting talent and has been supported by Channel 4 for the past five years.

Port City Playwrights' Project, a community of writers for stage and screen, meets 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 3, at the Myrtle Grove branch of the New Hanover County Library, 5155 S. College Rd., Wilmington. The agenda includes reading and discussing new scripts as well as planningÃÂ ...

A world premiere and Dallas premiere by Dallas-based Playwrights Jonathan Norton and Will Power and Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner, Sweat, will be among the classic and contemporary mix of plays in Dallas Theater Center's 2018-2019 seven-show season. Norton's Penny Candy, a storyÃÂ ...

The 2018 women's Voices theater festival runs January 15-February 15, 2018, with programming at 24 theatres in Washington, D.C. The festival presents new work by female Playwrights to cast a spotlight from the nation's capitol on gender parity in American theatre and the valuable works of femaleÃÂ ...

Join Playhouse on Park in designating the Greater Hartford area as a premiere destination for the cultivation of innovative theatrical work! The Playwrights on Park Reading Series was created for this very purpose, and our next evening in this exciting series is Tuesday, January 23 at 7:30pm with TedÃÂ ...

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is now accepting scripts for its 13th annual Young Playwrights Festival to be held May 11-13, 2018. Applications are due by February 13, 2018. A world-renowned developer of new work and new artists for the American theater, the O'Neill is the winner of two TonyÃÂ ...

The Black Dog arts Coalition and Theatre Black Dog host their fifth annual Playwrights Festival Thursday and Friday, Jan. 18 and 19 at the Black Dog Cafe in Snoqualmie. The festival starts at 7:30 p.m. and the shows start at 8 p.m., both nights. The Playwrights Festival debuted in 2013 as the brainchild ofÃÂ ...

But for three local young Playwrights, laying out a compelling story comes fairly easily. Middle school students Jack Slade, 14; Tess Redden, 11; and Kylie Dallas, 13, recently submitted their plays as a part of the Price-Blackburn Foundation Young Playwrights Award Contest, sponsored by the Golden IslesÃÂ ...

Playwrights Horizons, New York, is staging a production of Robert O'Hara's "Mankind," a daunting comedy where women have become extinct. A collage ... "Mankind" is on view through January 28, 2018, at Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St. Midtown West, New York, USA, noted The New York Times.

Now in its fourth year, the NWPR welcomes Playwrights to week-long retreats in Creede, Colo., in the January and February months. Leading into this season, 85 NWPR alumni participated in a new play contest resulting in the NWPR Winter Workshop: the workshopping and staged readings of two brandÃÂ ...

The 13th annual 10-minute PlayFest is underway. Put your pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and submit a short play based on the theme, thirteen. Playfest organizers are looking for short play submissions from local writers. Whether you are a seasoned playwright or a brand new writer, they would love toÃÂ ...

The women's theater festival in Washington, D.C., presents new work by women Playwrights to cast a national spotlight from the nation's capitol on gender parity in American theatre and the valuable works of female artists. From January 15-February 15, a conglomerate of 24 D.C. theatres each present aÃÂ ...

Playwrights Horizons' production of Miles For Mary, a comedy from ensemble company The Mad Ones with direction by Lila Neugebauer begins performances January 11. Set in 1988, the play tracks the meetings and politics of the planning committee for Garrison high school's ninth annual Miles For MaryÃÂ ...

Performances begin January 11 for Playwrights Horizons' production of Miles For Mary, a comedy from ensemble company The Mad Ones with direction by Lila Neugebauer. Set in 1988, the play tracks the meetings and politics of the planning committee for Garrison high school's ninth annual Miles ForÃÂ ...